prsiti

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From pȑsa.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /pr̂siti/
Hyphenation: pr‧si‧ti

Verb

pȑsiti impf (Cyrillic spelling пр̏сити)

(reflexive) to strut (walk proudly or haughtily, throwing out one's chest)
(reflexive, figuratively, with instrumental) to boast
prsiti se pob(j)edom ― to boast with one's victory

Conjugation

Conjugation of prsiti

Infinitive: prsiti		Present verbal adverb: pȑsēći		Past verbal adverb: —		Verbal noun: pȑšēnje
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
Present		prsim	prsiš	prsi	prsimo	prsite	prse
Future	Future I	prsit ću¹ prsiću	prsit ćeš¹ prsićeš	prsit će¹ prsiće	prsit ćemo¹ prsićemo	prsit ćete¹ prsićete	prsit će¹ prsiće
Future	Future II	bȕdēm prsio²	bȕdēš prsio²	bȕdē prsio²	bȕdēmo prsili²	bȕdēte prsili²	bȕdū prsili²
Past	Perfect	prsio sam²	prsio si²	prsio je²	prsili smo²	prsili ste²	prsili su²
	Pluperfect³	bȉo sam prsio²	bȉo si prsio²	bȉo je prsio²	bíli smo prsili²	bíli ste prsili²	bíli su prsili²
	Imperfect	pršah	pršaše	pršaše	pršasmo	pršaste	pršahu
Conditional I		prsio bih²	prsio bi²	prsio bi²	prsili bismo²	prsili biste²	prsili bi²
Conditional II⁴		bȉo bih prsio²	bȉo bi prsio²	bȉo bi prsio²	bíli bismo prsili²	bíli biste prsili²	bíli bi prsili²
Imperative		—	prsi	—	prsimo	prsite	—
Active past participle		prsio m / prsila f / prsilo n			prsili m / prsile f / prsila n
¹ Croatian spelling: others omit the infinitive suffix completely and bind the clitic. ² For masculine nouns; a feminine or neuter agent would use the feminine and neuter gender forms of the active past participle and auxiliary verb, respectively. ³ Often replaced by the past perfect in colloquial speech, i.e. the auxiliary verb biti (to be) is routinely dropped. ⁴ Often replaced by the conditional I in colloquial speech, i.e. the auxiliary verb biti (to be) is routinely dropped. *Note: The aorist and imperfect were not present in, or have nowadays fallen into disuse in, many dialects and therefore they are routinely replaced by the past perfect in both formal and colloquial speech.

Derived terms

ìsprsiti

References

“prsiti”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2024